All news: Viet Nam

Viet Nam readies itself to support an ageing society, with decent work, skills, and social protection at its core

A new Government decision encourages collaboration with ILO to help support longer working lives, reskilling, and protection for older workers.

Occupational Safety and Health

Learning, applying, passing it on: A man’s commitment to safer coffee farming

Nguyen Trong Tuong was first introduced to the ILO’s WIND approach in 2022. Four years later, he is teaching it himself and still looking for ways to make safer and healthier work part of everyday coffee farming in Viet Nam

Viet Nam advances enterprise workforce development with new training fund framework

Viet Nam has adopted a new framework for enterprise human resource training funds, with ILO-supported research contributing international evidence and policy options to strengthen workforce skills development and investment.

Youth employment

Youth employment takes centre stage in Viet Nam’s future of work

As Viet Nam’s world of work undergoes profound transformation, ensuring young people can access productive and decent work requires looking beyond unemployment figures to job quality, informality and school-to-work transitions.

ASEAN seminar highlights growing links between trade, labour rights and competitiveness

ASEAN governments, workers and employers, supported by the ILO, examine how stronger implementation of fundamental labour rights can help the region respond to changing trade and supply-chain requirements and support sustainable competitiveness.

Employment promotion and South-South cooperation

Inclusive policies and social dialogue key to navigating AI transformation in Asian labour markets

Regional Policy Dialogue considers policy approaches to harness artificial intelligence while addressing inequality, digital divides and changing skills needs.

Youth employment

Learning through experience, growing through skills: A Viet Nam Youth Network member's story

Quynh Chi, a member of the ILO-Korea Youth Network for Decent Work and Green Jobs in Viet Nam, shares how hands-on learning, opportunities to apply knowledge in practice, community engagement and collaboration with other young people have helped her...

Occupational Safety and Health

Safer coffee work takes root as local capacity grows in Viet Nam’s coffee communities

A partnership creates lasting impact when the knowledge and skills it builds are carried forward by those it has trained.

Social protection

Building stronger labour journalism to inform Viet Nam's future of work

An ILO initiative is strengthening journalists’ capacity to report on labour, wages and social protection, supporting more informed public dialogue as Viet Nam’s world of work continues to evolve.

Productivity ecosystems for decent work

Building capacity to drive SME productivity and decent work in Viet Nam

New training, advisory services, and knowledge-sharing initiatives are helping SME support organizations and enterprises accelerate digital and green transformation while improving productivity and working conditions.

Productivity ecosystems for decent work

Viet Nam builds momentum for policy reform to strengthen support for SMEs and household businesses

Recommendations from a multi-stakeholder consultation will inform reforms to the SME support framework, helping businesses become more productive while creating better jobs and more inclusive economic opportunities.

Cross-regional dialogue platform launched on social protection for migrant workers along the Asia–Gulf corridor

The launch of the platform, co-chaired by the Philippines and the GCC Executive Bureau, sends a powerful message: effective social protection for migrant workers can only be achieved through dialogue and partnership between countries of origin and...

ILO report highlights progress and gaps in maternity benefits across ASEAN

New analysis finds expanded maternity protection across the region, while calling for stronger efforts to close coverage gaps and improve benefit adequacy for all women.

Productivity ecosystems for decent work

Viet Nam takes a major step toward sustainable enterprise development with new national programme

With technical contributions from the ILO, the Government of Viet Nam has approved a landmark national programme to advance sustainable business practices across the country's private sector for the period 2026–2030.

Responsible electronics

ILO and Viet Nam's commerce chamber launch initiative to advance responsible business practices in electronics sector

New 2026–27 programme brings together up to 50 electronics suppliers nationwide for training, peer learning, and multi-stakeholder dialogue

Occupational Safety and Health

ILO and Viet Nam partners address psychosocial risks at work in national occupational safety and health month

Representatives of the tripartite constituents from the government, employers’ and workers’ organizations, and youth participants gathered in Hanoi to mark the Viet Nam’s National Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Month, with a focus on...

Youth employment

Finding a place in tech: A young woman’s story of learning, participation, and inclusion in Viet Nam

A story of Nguyen Phuong Thao, a young Vietnamese woman who turned self-doubt into confidence and became an advocate for gender equity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and green jobs.

Employment in Focus blog series

Navigating Generative AI’s transformations in ASEAN labour markets

ILO employment specialists in Asia analyse the impact by sector, occupation, gender, and education level and explore implications for future policy responses

Just transition

Identifying priority actions for a just transition in Viet Nam's paper and pulp sector

Stakeholders from government, industry and trade unions gathered in Hanoi to identify priority actions for a just transition in Viet Nam's paper and pulp sector, addressing green finance gaps, skills mismatches and worker protections.

Employers and Business Membership Organizations (EBMOS)

ILO and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry advance responsible business conduct agenda

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) met this week to strengthen cooperation on responsible business conduct (RBC), as global market expectations increasingly shape how enterprises...